Month: April 2019

Faith news

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All Saints Catholic parish, 809 Vermont Ave., Kansas City, Kansas, will hold the 35th annual Polski Day on Saturday, May 4. The event will include a parade at 11 a.m., a Polka Mass at 5 p.m., a festival from 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., Polish food and live musical entertainment. For more information, visit https://polskiday.com/ .

Stations of the Cross will be held at 5:30 p.m. Fridays during Lent at Christ the King Catholic Church, 3024 N. 53rd St., Kansas City, Kansas. Stations will be in English at 5:30 p.m. and in Spanish at 7:30 p.m. A reconciliation service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 13, at Christ the King.

The Cure Church, a nondenominational church at 3650 N. 67th St., Kansas City, Kansas, plans an Easter egg drop after the 10 a.m. service on Sunday, April 21. Ten thousand eggs will be dropped from a helicopter. The event also will include a petting zoo, bounce house and food.

Holy Name Catholic parish, 1007 Southwest Blvd., Kansas City, Kansas, will sponsor Lenten dinners from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Fridays in Lent.

“Scripture Study and Reflection” will be offered from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Wednesday, April 10, at the Keeler Women’s Center, 2220 Central Ave., Kansas City, Kansas. The program is facilitated by Heather Neds.
The Gospel Non-Violence Study Group will meet from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 16, at the Keeler Women’s Center, 2220 Central Ave., Kansas City, Kansas. To register, call 913-906-8990.
“Holy Women Series: Buddhist Nuns” will be presented from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Thursday, April 11, by Judith Sutera at the Keeler Women’s Center, 2220 Central Ave., Kansas City, Kansas. To register, call 913-906-8990.
“Lenten Reflection Through Art” by Mary Donovan will be presented from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Mondays, April 8 and 15 at the Keeler Women’s Center, 2220 Central Ave., Kansas City, Kansas. To register, call 913-906-8990.
The Keeler Women’s Center is a ministry of the Benedictine Sisters of Atchison, Kansas. All programs are free. To register, call 913-906-8990.

St. John the Baptist Men’s Club is sponsoring a jumbo shrimp dinner at 5:30 p.m. April 12 at St. John’s Catholic Club gym, 414 Barnett, Kansas City, Kansas. The dinners will cost $16.

A shrimp and fish dinner will be sponsored at St. John the Evangelist,2910 Strong Ave., Kansas City, Kansas, from 5 to 7 p.m. April 12. The cost of dinner will be $12 for a large meal; $8 for a small meal; and $8 for fish.


St. Patrick Catholic parish, 94th and State Avenue, will sponsor fish dinners on Fridays in Lent. The dinners will begin at 4:30 p.m. The cost of the dinner is $10 to $11 for adults, $6 for children, and $30 for families.

The Preschool Basket Bonanza, a fundraiser, will take place at 6:15 p.m. Friday, April 12, in the Cole Activity Center at Stony Point Christian Church, 149 S. 78th St., Kansas City, Kansas.

Members of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1300 N. 18th St., Kansas City, Kansas, will observe Palm Sunday at 10 a.m. April 14. A Hosanna Parade and Easter egg hunt for children will be held starting at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 13. The parish has announced plans for Holy Week. The Rt. Rev. Cathleen Chittenden Bascom, the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Kansas, will conduct a Maundy Thursday service at 7 p.m. April 18. A light supper will precede the service at 6 p.m. in the parish hall. The Rev. Canon Anthony Guile and the Rev. Samuel Samuel Borbon, officials from the national church promoting Hispanic ministries, will conduct Good Friday services at 6 p.m. April 19 and at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, April 20, at St. Paul’s breakfast. Father Borbon will celebrate Eucharist at 11 a.m. Easter Sunday, April 21.

Wyandotte United Methodist Church, 7901 Oakland Ave., Kansas City, Kansas, is planning an Easter egg hunt for toddlers through sixth grade at 3 p.m. Saturday, April 13. Registration will be at 2:30 p.m. The event will be supervised and participants will be divided into three age groups. The event includes a craft and story, and it will be held rain or shine.

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Sporting KC visits Cincinnati on Sunday

Sporting KC, a founding member of Major League Soccer, will travel to face a new expansion team on Sunday.

Sporting Kansas City (2-1-1, 7 points) squares off with FC Cincinnati (2-2-1, 7 points) before a nationally televised audience on ESPN and ESPN Deportes.

Sunday’s cross-conference clash will kick off at 2 p.m. CT, airing live locally on Sports Radio 810 WHB (English) and ESPN Deportes KC 1480 AM (Spanish) with The Final Whistle postgame show immediately following on 810 WHB.

Led by 11th-year manager Peter Vermes, Sporting enters the match on the heels of two vastly dissimilar results in separate competitions. A record-breaking 7-1 league win over the Montreal Impact last Saturday at Children’s Mercy Park was followed by a humbling 5-0 setback at CF Monterrey in the first leg of the Concacaf Champions League Semifinals on Thursday.

Less than 72 hours removed from a stinging loss in Mexico, Sporting will look to reclaim the magic of last weekend’s performance that saw Krisztian Nemeth record a hat-trick, Johnny Russell strike twice and Gerso Fernandes record two assists.

Vermes’ men are unbeaten in three straight regular season fixtures since falling by the slimmest of margins at first-place LAFC on March 3, and a victory at Nippert Stadium would help absorb any lingering malaise of Thursday’s Champions League defeat.

Since the beginning of the MLS expansion era in 2005, Sporting is 9-3-3 in their inaugural meetings against expansion clubs. That record is certain to change on Sunday, and FC Cincinnati’s early-season form suggests the task will be far from simple.

Since suffering a 4-1 road loss at Seattle Sounders FC in their MLS debut, FC Cincinnati has rebounded to take seven points from their last four games. That stretch includes a 3-0 home win over the Portland Timbers on March 17 and a 2-0 triumph at New England Revolution a week later.

Cincinnati head coach Alan Koch- whose coaching career began at nearby Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas, from 2006 to 2008 – has assembled a formidable first-year roster in MLS, having guided Cincy to the second-division USL Championship’s best regular season record last year.

Seven different players have accounted for the club’s seven goals in 2019, with forward Kekuta Manneh, winger Roland Lamah, midfielder Kenny Saief and center back Kendall Waston all scoring.

FC Cincinnati’s first defeat at the raucous Nippert Stadium came last Saturday in a rain-drenched 2-0 decision against the Philadelphia Union.

The hosts mustered just five shot attempts amid brutal playing conditions as the Union bagged second-half goals through Marco Fabian and David Accam. Waston was sidelined for the match with a calf injury but figures to return to the lineup against Sporting, while Cincinnati striker Fanendo Adi will likely miss out after violating the league’s substance abuse policy earlier this week.

Sunday marks the continuation of a scheduling quirk that will see Sporting play six of seven regular season fixtures against Eastern Conference opponents. The stretch began versus Montreal and continues a week from Sunday when Vermes’ side plays host to reigning Supporters’ Shield champion New York Red Bulls in a rematch of the 2017 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final.

After a trip to the San Jose Earthquakes on April 20, Sporting will meet New England MLS Cup holders Atlanta United FC and D.C. United in consecutive match days from April 27 to May 12.

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Home runs help Blue Devils get baseball split at Neosho

by Alan Hoskins, KCKCC

Kansas City Kansas Community College won a 7-2 home run duel in the first game of a doubleheader at Neosho County Friday only to be limited to just four hits in a 3-1 second game loss.

The split left the Blue Devils (15-3) solidly in the third place in the Jayhawk Conference as the two teams completed their four-game series today at KCKCC. Johnson County and Cowley share the Jayhawk lead, both at 13-1. At Rockhurst junior varsity Monday at 5 p.m., the Blue Devils open a pivotal four-game series at home Thursday against first-place JCCC.

Traice Hartter and Jose Sosa each homered and each drove in three runs in the 7-2 opener. The round-trippers made a winner out of Orlando Ortiz, who allowed only five hits and just two after the first inning.

Adam Theis’ two-run home run gave Neosho a 2-0 lead in the first inning but Ortiz was almost untouchable the rest of the way, striking out 12 and walking three. Just six Panthers reached base the final six innings and only one got past second base.

KCKCC took command in the third inning with a 5-run uprising. After a single by Jose Acosta, Hartter tied the game the game with a two-run home to left-center and Sosa gave the Blue Devils the lead with a 3-run home run following a walk and the first of two hits by Kevin Santiago.

Singles by Eric Hinostroza and Santiago added an insurance run in the fifth and Hartter drove in his third run with a double following a Tyler Henry single in the sixth.

Neosho broke up an outstanding pitching duel in the 9-inning nightcap, breaking a 1-1 deadlock with a two-out, two run rally in the bottom of the eighth.

KCKCC took a 1-0 lead on a Traice Hartter home run leading off the sixth inning but the Panthers pulled even in the bottom of the inning. Held to two hits the first five innings by Carlos Soto, Neosho tied it on a two-out double by Khalil Thrasher following a double and a single. The Panthers then won it in the eighth against reliever Gaby Ramos, who walked two before Brant Scrivner delivered a two-out double to left-center.

Soto scattered seven hits, walked two and struck out five in seven innings but the Blue Devils could muster only four hits off Neosho lefthander Ben DesRosiers and none after Hartter’s home run in the sixth.

DesRosiers struck out seven, walked none and retired the Blue Devils in order in five of his eight innings on the mound before Alex DeBay pitched a hitless ninth inning. Hartter had two of KCKCC’s four hits, Santiago and Trey Hoover the others.